Written by Sean Koh

Hasn’t it been long since we did one of these? Scouring the Inter-webs for movie news for this article, one will be hard-pressed to find movie news articles that actually matter. So, in between Erika Christakis’s ( Time magazine ) defence of the latest Twillight movie, and Hollywood earning calls, we picked a couple of the more important things you should probably know about the world of movies today :

Digital Projectors to End Film Forever : Says a new study by the IHS. Cinemas using film projectors have slid to about 68% last year, will drop to 37% of Cinemas next year, and 15% by 2015 as Film projects become the niche. Why the quick switch to replace 35-mm celluoid?

“Avatar”

More theaters are now pushing for 3D and digital movies, to sell more expansive tickets. David Goodman wrote an interesting piece about this, over at CNN Money.

——-

Scorsese’s first foray into 3D, ‘Hugo’ debuts this week :
Also, new for the esteemed director, ‘making a movie he could actually watch with his daughter.’. Says Scorsese, he needs to make a bloodless move after telling “…just about every gangster story I knew”. While not quite in the similar vein as George Miller going from making ‘Mad Max’ to making ‘Happy Feet 2’, the switch seems sort of natural, after directing one too many movies, where Leo DiCaprio shoots himself, gets shot, or goes crazy. ‘Hugo’ is out in the US and UK November 23rd, no word yet on the worldwide release.

Locations Scout, Eva Monley, dies at 88
The legendary Hollywood locations manager, known for work on classics such as “The African Queen”,“Lawrence of Arabia” and “Magambo”, passed at the age of 88 in her Kenyan home, last week. Ms Monley, had been essential in securing many shooting locations in Africa, owing to her fluence in Swahili. Without her, Hollywood would have missed some of its most formative years.